INFLUENCIA DE LOS ACIDOS GRASOS POLIINSATURADOS OMEGA-3 Y OMEGA-6 DE LA DIETA Y DE SUS METABOLITOS EN LA RESPUESTA INMUNE DE TIPO ALERGICO

• Published in: Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Vol. 63; no. 2; pp. 301 - 313
• Main Authors: DEIVIS JAVIER VILLANUEVA PÁJARO, JAVIER AVELINO MARRUGO CANO
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Bogota Universidad Nacional de Colombia 01.04.2015
• Subjects: Alergias; Fatty acids; Food allergies; Hipótesis de la dieta; Hipótesis de las grasas; Immunology; MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL; Oils & fats; Ácidos grasos omega-3 y omega-6; Dieta; Consumo de Alimentos; Grasas en la dieta; Fatty Acids; Hipersensibilidad a los Alimentos; Omega-6; Dietary Fats; Allergy and Immunology; Food Allergy; Omega-3; Alergia e Inmunología
• ISSN: 0120-0011; 2357-3848
• DOI: 10.15446/revfacmed.v63n2.48055

The prevalence rates for allergic diseases has increased markedly in the last fifty years, both in developed and developing countries, in which, such increase is mainly represented by the population of children and teens, an event which in turn is conceived as a major public health problem worldwide. Many factors have been proposed trying to explain the causes of this problematic, among which highlights the diet hypothesis, pointing that specic components of feeding and changes in the patterns of the same, would promote the development of allergies and will inuence the increase from its prevalence. In support of which, the fat hypothesis, showing that parallel to the rise in allergies worldwide, also has been an excessive consumption of foods with high content of omega-6 fatty acids and low in omega-3, mainly in western diets and as result of interventions in cardiovascular risk prevention, which together could explain part of this global phenomenon, aspects will be to board in the present thematic review.